oooooo, I know this one!! I like country music, but this guy is more my Sweetie's style.

I know too!!!

MH

Sierra

Okie, I know this one. Gotta run, always seems to be too much work and not enough play. Think I'll walk off my steady job today. :)

...and he also shares a name with one of the U.S. presidents who at one time did him a huge favor.

Annette

Oh yeah, I think I know - did he not end up doing a song writers circle with Cash, Waylon Jennings, and maybe Willie or Kris Kristofferson.....I have a vague memory of these men in a circle, toting their guitars.

I agree MH.

Nancy.

I think MH is correct.

Janie

Ah, you are all smartie pants lol

You got me. I know nothing about country music.

A few years back I saw a huge tour bus parked in front of a hotel with a bunch of guys in cowboy hats standing around the bus. Being curious as I am, I asked who they were. One of the men said, "we're Brooks and Dunn". I said, "what kind of music do you play?". He said, "country". I said, "oh, I don't listen to country". He replied "you would like our music. Turns out I was talking with the lead singer. I felt so bad.

ROTFL Edna, that sounds like something I would have done. I only like a few Country singers MH happens to be one of them.
I'm more of a Santana, Willie and Lobo type of gal.

Annette

Edna - too funny - they're kinda cute, those 2!!

Nancy.

I'm intrigued by the shares a name with a girl that I had a crush on in the fifth grade bit. Probably not a boy named Sue.

Off-topic on the already OT side: How far from orchestral music can you get and still be in the realm of music? Has anyone played a theramin? To the best of my knowledge, it's the only instrument you don't have to touch to play

Ooooh, wouldn't that have made a good trivia question! I have definitely never played one, but would love to play around with one.

TM

TM - Yeah, it's a lot of fun. I used to hang out with a band whose bass player would pull out his theramin for a couple of novelty numbers.

It's all about interfering with the magnetic field. Really difficult to get the right note when your hands are waving around in mid-air.

I don't know the answer because I'm not a country music follower. I do remember Johhny Cash's visit to San Quentin where sang Folsom Prison Blues.
1958?? 1958!!!?????!!!!!!!! Gee, I'm getting old.

Libby

Libby, it might not be that bad. I think Johnny Cash played at San Quentin maybe four times, with the latest one being 1969.

TM

I like his song Okie from Muskogee. I also like the songs The Man in Black sings.

Sue

Ana - I think Edna had a clue for you!!

Nancy.

Libby, it might not be that bad. I think Johnny Cash played at San Quentin maybe four times, with the latest one being 1969.

Whew. Thanks TM :)

Libby

My dog's name is Quinton :0P spelled a little different.

Still can't figure out what the answer is - even with all the wonderful hints and abbreviations.

I had no idea that so many of you would know this. It was my fifth grade crush that gave it away, wasn't it? Yes, Merle was a cute young thing, who, amazingly, thought I was pretty cute too. By sixth grade, she had no use for me at all, and I spent that year in a funk, wondering what had happened. Ah, young love never runs smoothly, does it?

Yes, Merle Haggard was the bad boy in San Quentin, who went on to become one of country music's biggest stars, and performed with Johnny Cash himself. Supposedly, he told Cash that he remembered him from a San Quentin performance and Cash said that he didn't remember Haggard performing there with him. Haggard grinned and said no, he was an inmate. Could easily be true, I suppose.

The five-star smarties today are Blueberryhills, Token, Sierra, Annette, Nancy, Janie, and Sue. Did I miss anyone?

Here are your stars:

Thanks for playing trivia, y'all.

ThinMan

The only Merle I ever heard of was Merle Norman. Remember ladies?? They had little shops where you could get a make over. Yes, you too could look like a movie star. *LOL* I tried it once and when I came out of the store my eye makeup made me look like a pink albino hamster.